Have fun drinking your wine from the toilet bowl.

I never had one of my wired earbuds fall off the platform at the train station and disappear in the gravel, nor did I ever have isues with forgetting to charge them, let alone their case being brolen and not charging at all. And if I want to switch my favourite headphones over from my PC to my phone, I'm really glad my old phone still has a jack.

Someday you will have to buy a new phone.

You probably didn't do it on purpose, but you made a comparison on Apple's terms, thus implicitly priveleging Apple.

Last thing Apple needs is us priveleging it.

Apple now allows sideloading of apps and Google is trying to get rid of sideloading.

What... the Fuck?

Jesus, how the heck is this called "sideloading is so easy on an iPhone"?

That's a nightmare procedure, and completely unnecessary.

Obviously Apple makes sideloading as hard as possible.

Shit, I hadn't thought of that.

Apple hardware ahead of Android? I'll have what you're having!

I make $19/hr and live paycheck to paycheck. I'm just being realistic about the current cell phone market.

In all fairness to smart watches, mine is what turned me on to regularly checking the UV index. That's an important thing for all people, but especially me because I have an increased skin cancer risk due to unrelated medical stuff. And it was extra-extra important this year because I have done a ton of good work outside this summer.

And to be more specific about my watch situation, there's more going on than just avoiding notifications. I have been minimizing the amount of stuff I keep on my person in general, right down to finally getting my wedding ring tattooed on this year. There are various reasons ranging from abstract introspective life improvement stuff to the practical where that outside work I mentioned was constant and pretty rough on anything on my hands/arms.

So even if I wore a nice mechanical watch, I'd probably still be going with the double bare wrists right now.

Now we have to get EU on the case

Please show me a single benchmark with a flagship android beating a flagship iPhone.

They don’t care about those.

They want revanced and other ad circumvention tools out.

They ARE an ad company, you know?

I'm just saying Apple doesn't make anything close to a cheap stripped down $200 model.

I made the comparison based on feature set. For that you need an android flagship phone. Android DOES make cheap phones....but therexs no 1:1 comparison for Apple.

They won’t become “removable” like in ye old Nokia days. It’s not like you can carry extra batteries and just swap them on the go.

They just have to be swappable without special tools or specialist equipment.

Surely cost relative to income is more relevant than cost relative to the rest of the market? Something doesn't magically become cheap just because everything else is ridiculously expensive.

I just can’t wrap my head around sinking that much into a phone when you replace it every year

Usually the people who replace their flagship phone every 1 - 2 years aren't paying full price for it, or at least not upfront. They are receiving trade-in and pre-order discounts, or spreading the cost out over a 12 - 24 month period through a plan with their telco.

> be me
> buy new phone, chose android cause I can install anything on it
> get free iphone from work
> sell iphone on ebay cause I can install anything I want on my android
> google doesnt want me to install anything I want

Fuck me. I kept the wrong phone.

not necessarily. the developer needs to sign the APK with a key issued by Google. the main issue here is that developers will be forced to identify themselves.

I’m just saying Apple doesn’t make anything close to a cheap stripped down $200 model.

Yes, I think that's exactly the point people are trying to make to you.